The Nocilla Trilogy: Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, Nocilla Lab

Summary

A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo’s Nocilla Trilogy — Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Lab, and Nocilla Experience — presents multiple narratives of people and places that reflect America and the world in the digital age of the 21st century.

In the middle of the Nevada desert stands a solitary poplar tree covered in hundreds of pairs of shoes. Farther along Route 50, a lonely prostitute falls in love with a collector of found photographs. In Las Vegas, an Argentine man builds a peculiar monument to Jorge Luis Borges. On the run from the authorities, Kenny takes up permanent residence in the legal non-place of Singapore International Airport, while the novelists Enrique Vila-Matas and Agustín Fernández Mallo encounter each other on an oil rig.

These are just a few of the narrative strands that make up Fernández Mallo’s Nocilla Trilogy: Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, and Nocilla Lab. Greeted as a landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, the entire trilogy has not been available in English until now.